time of the day it currently. When I close my eyes while listening to this album I’m walking through empty, dark streets, looking at flickering lights of the city in the distance. My brain won’t accept another setting for listening to this record. The rich string section, delicate vocals, subtle and slight lo-fi esthetic create this unique world which all those songs coinhabit. There’s not much differentiation in the instrumentation throughout the record but at no point do the songs bleed into one other. The first leg of the album is stacked with stunning and instantly catchy melodies. You might think that a record so sleepy and melancholic wouldn’t be so captivating from the first listen but I discovered Steady Holiday from their Coachella performance few years ago, that was streaming when I was on my way to school. Despite hearing only around ten minutes of the concert on shitty headphones in a crowded bus I knew I have to hear their album. It shares a lot of similarities with chamber pop and atmospheric indie- projects like Wild Nothing, Julia Holter might come to mind. The environment of this Steady Holiday is absolutely unique despite that and her songwriting abilities were really overlooked by most critics in recent years. I hope her future projects get more traction and some day I’ll get to watch her Coachella stream from a bigger stage.
Rating: 8/10
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